Is the $100 Million Car the New $100 Million Artwork?

On May 5, Oliver Barker arrived in Stuttgart, Germany, to oversee an auction. Barker’s been with the contemporary art department at Sotheby’s since 2001, and since 2016 he’s been the chairman of all European operations. Which means Barker sells a lot of art. Last month he oversaw Sotheby’s $408 million modern art sale in New York, where a Monet landscape of the Grand Canal in Venice sold for nearly $57 million with fees. But Barker wasn’t in Stuttgart to sell art. He was there to sell a car—not just any car, but an ultra-rare Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut, enshrined in… Read Full Article